Will Richardson interviews Howard Rheingold (from Laura's blog):
Live TV : Ustream
Smart Mobs
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
21 Vodcast - Ft. Ticonderoga and Middlebury
I just finished (with help from Sharon) creating my first vodcast. I used some pictures I had taken and uploaded to Facebook a while ago. If you have not been to Ft. Ticonderoga it is a really nice trip. It's about 135 miles north of Concord, NH. On the Vermont side are beautiful farms and orchards, most sell apples, some make fresh cider.
The history of the fort is very interesting - see the website below. It's close to Middlebury College too. I drove over to see what was new there to share with my son who is now living in NYC.
Ft Ticonderoga formerly known as Ft. Carillon
Middlebury College
The video tour
The history of the fort is very interesting - see the website below. It's close to Middlebury College too. I drove over to see what was new there to share with my son who is now living in NYC.
Ft Ticonderoga formerly known as Ft. Carillon
Middlebury College
The video tour
Thursday, February 26, 2009
20 How to Change the World
Sharon and I saw Guy Kawasaki speak at the Blackboard conference and have been big fans ever since. I think you will appreciate Guy's insights below:
The Art of Innovation - it includes audio, video and the slide show.
Using Powerpoint effectively:
Using Open Source Tools to Start a Company
How to Change the World - Guy's blog
The Art of Innovation - it includes audio, video and the slide show.
Using Powerpoint effectively:
Using Open Source Tools to Start a Company
How to Change the World - Guy's blog
Sunday, February 22, 2009
....."Where seldom is heard a discouraging word"....
For all of us who are trying to catch up and finish the course while working and dealing with winter, here's a bit of stress relief:
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
And the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light from the glittering stars
Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free
The breezes so balmy and light
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Oh, I love those wild flow'rs in this dear land of ours
The curlew, I love to hear scream
And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks
That graze on the mountaintops green
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
I used to sing this song all the time when I was a kid. It helped me visualize riding the open range on my paint horse with Gene Autry as a sidekick.
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
And the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light from the glittering stars
Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free
The breezes so balmy and light
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Oh, I love those wild flow'rs in this dear land of ours
The curlew, I love to hear scream
And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks
That graze on the mountaintops green
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
I used to sing this song all the time when I was a kid. It helped me visualize riding the open range on my paint horse with Gene Autry as a sidekick.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
19 Even PSNH is Using Social Media Tools (Feb. 23-28)
PSNH is not an Internet start up or a Web-based business. When an electric utility company starts using social media tools to communicate and interact with customers it's evidence of how quickly organizations are adopting Web 2.0 tools and why students need to develop these skills.
PSNH is using Twitter (a micro blogging site that limits posts to 140 characters), Flickr and YouTube, especially during the massive ice storm in December. However, with 400,000 customers without power, Web 2.0 tools have limitations during a power outage but people with power can call friends and family with updates and Twitter messages can be sent by PSNH to your cell phone.
Twitter in Plain English
Power Restoration After Massive December 2008 Ice Storm
PSNH Service Center
PSNH is using Twitter (a micro blogging site that limits posts to 140 characters), Flickr and YouTube, especially during the massive ice storm in December. However, with 400,000 customers without power, Web 2.0 tools have limitations during a power outage but people with power can call friends and family with updates and Twitter messages can be sent by PSNH to your cell phone.
Twitter in Plain English
Power Restoration After Massive December 2008 Ice Storm
PSNH Service Center
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
18 Course reflection (Feb 23 -28)
I appreciate learning so much about blogs, wikis, embedding videos in a blog, the YouTube Common Craft videos, project based learning and the existence of software for managing academic projects such as Project Foundry. I also had not used TeacherTube and EduTube before. The course is a source of many important insights into using Web 2.0 tools and changing our online teaching environment. I am now thinking we are far behind where we should be. But we have made great progress in recent years and will continue to encourage change.
I was somewhat unsure of what to include in my blogs. I know it pertained to the topic of the week, but a rubric of blog expectations would be good.
A lot of anxiety associated with the course could be greatly reduced by posting a one document a summary of assignments that are numbered and associated with a specific week. If the assignment changes, you just need to update the assignment sheet.
For example:
Assignments for the Course
Week 1 (Jan. 1 - Jan. 8) <<<<< changed to Jan. 9 - 16 due to ice storms in NH
Text: Page 1-25
Review content in Week 1 wiki folder
Assignment #1: Blog topic - Project Based Learning
Assignment #2: Blog topic - Wikis
Week 2 (Jan. 9 - Jan. 16) <<<< changed to Jan. 17 - 24
Text: Pages 26-50
Review content in Week 2 wiki folder
Assignment #3: Blog topic - Social Networking
Assignment #4: Blog topic - Teaching in the Networked Classroom
Review content in Week 2 folder
Bill Strickland video <<<<< new addition
For Google docs, I suggest a clearer format for you and for the students - for example:
Week 1
Blog #1
Blog #2
Week 2
Blog #3
Blog #4
Have students clearly label their blogs so you can see which blogs are done easily and which week they relate to.
Also, I suggest you post a class roster, since people added their profiles, google reader, RSS, etc. at different times making it harder to know who was in the course.
The connectivity to other students was somewhat random. A structure would have created a less random set of interactions. For example, in week one all students should comment on Sharon Sabol's blog #1. In week 2, all students please comment on Allicat's blog #2. Anything similar that encourages a community of learners to interact together at the beginning is powerful.
The course content is very helpful and interesting. There is also a lot of anxiety searching for assignments in folders, changing weeks, changing assignments, etc. That is in addition to the anxiety of figuring out how to navigate through a lot of new technology. A clear structure that helps students navigate and understand better would enable people to focus on mastering the content rather than figuring out what to do, how to add tech tools, etc.
Creating a folder called Student Lounge and defining how to use it would be helpful. In that place students can discuss questions, helpful technology suggestions, and resolve many questions among themselves. Also, the instructor can post answers to frequently asked questions so that he/she is not emailing the same responses to different students. Plus a student lounge helps people in the course to interact directly with each other and help each other with anxiety provoking problems that are always part of downloading and using new technology.
Thank you Jeff and Kim. The content of the course is really interesting and helpful. Thanks for all your efforts and understanding during a term of so many disruptive storms.
P.S. The text is not user friendly. It's redundant, not presented very clearly and hard to retain..the writing is overly verbose, repetitive and the pictures are often more distracting than helpful. The concepts are good, but are not presented effectively. In contrast see Don't Make Me Think - A Common Sense Guide to Web Usability
The content is excellent and the presentation of that content is superior.
I was somewhat unsure of what to include in my blogs. I know it pertained to the topic of the week, but a rubric of blog expectations would be good.
A lot of anxiety associated with the course could be greatly reduced by posting a one document a summary of assignments that are numbered and associated with a specific week. If the assignment changes, you just need to update the assignment sheet.
For example:
Assignments for the Course
Week 1 (Jan. 1 - Jan. 8) <<<<< changed to Jan. 9 - 16 due to ice storms in NH
Text: Page 1-25
Review content in Week 1 wiki folder
Assignment #1: Blog topic - Project Based Learning
Assignment #2: Blog topic - Wikis
Week 2 (Jan. 9 - Jan. 16) <<<< changed to Jan. 17 - 24
Text: Pages 26-50
Review content in Week 2 wiki folder
Assignment #3: Blog topic - Social Networking
Assignment #4: Blog topic - Teaching in the Networked Classroom
Review content in Week 2 folder
Bill Strickland video <<<<< new addition
For Google docs, I suggest a clearer format for you and for the students - for example:
Week 1
Blog #1
Blog #2
Week 2
Blog #3
Blog #4
Have students clearly label their blogs so you can see which blogs are done easily and which week they relate to.
Also, I suggest you post a class roster, since people added their profiles, google reader, RSS, etc. at different times making it harder to know who was in the course.
The connectivity to other students was somewhat random. A structure would have created a less random set of interactions. For example, in week one all students should comment on Sharon Sabol's blog #1. In week 2, all students please comment on Allicat's blog #2. Anything similar that encourages a community of learners to interact together at the beginning is powerful.
The course content is very helpful and interesting. There is also a lot of anxiety searching for assignments in folders, changing weeks, changing assignments, etc. That is in addition to the anxiety of figuring out how to navigate through a lot of new technology. A clear structure that helps students navigate and understand better would enable people to focus on mastering the content rather than figuring out what to do, how to add tech tools, etc.
Creating a folder called Student Lounge and defining how to use it would be helpful. In that place students can discuss questions, helpful technology suggestions, and resolve many questions among themselves. Also, the instructor can post answers to frequently asked questions so that he/she is not emailing the same responses to different students. Plus a student lounge helps people in the course to interact directly with each other and help each other with anxiety provoking problems that are always part of downloading and using new technology.
Thank you Jeff and Kim. The content of the course is really interesting and helpful. Thanks for all your efforts and understanding during a term of so many disruptive storms.
P.S. The text is not user friendly. It's redundant, not presented very clearly and hard to retain..the writing is overly verbose, repetitive and the pictures are often more distracting than helpful. The concepts are good, but are not presented effectively. In contrast see Don't Make Me Think - A Common Sense Guide to Web Usability
The content is excellent and the presentation of that content is superior.
17 Project Based Learning (PBL) + Assessment (Feb 16 - 22)
Project Based Learning is the result of new developments in learning theory over the past 25 years. Neuroscience and psychology research indicates that knowledge, thinking, doing, and the contexts for learning (social interactions, culture, community, and past experiences) are inextricably linked.
An Introduction to Project Based Learning provided by the Buck Institute is a good summary of PBL.
Why Teach with Project Based Learning?
Project Based Learning Professional Development Courseware (free)
Project Based Learning/Project Foundry Software
Project Based Learning Changes the Learning Culture
Assessment of PBL:
Some teachers who are considering PBL are concerned about students performing as well on standardized tests.
The Buck Institute (BIE) has addressed standards-based concerns with the PBL Co-Laboratory, a free online library of project-learning project plans that conform to national standards and other online resources to support standards based PBL
A PBL Handbook describes the process and projects that demonstrate inclusion of standards into project based learning.
The Buck Institute also provides extensive Web Resources for Faculty Development and for PBL and School Reform.
PBL does involve more time and planning. One solution is growing number of online project libraries as well as software such as Project Foundry that can facilitate the process of creating and teaching within a project based learning. See the video above for a demonstration of how Project Foundry works.
West Virginia is attempting to implement project learning in every classroom. Carla Williamson, executive director for the state's Office of Instruction, says "Project learning can require more time, but it's time well spent, because the students are really taking ownership of their learning, and the end result is that their learning is so much deeper," she explains. "That's something they carry with them for the rest of their life."
I believe PBL can help change the entrenched culture of schools from one based on the Instructor providing content in lecture mode (which often is dull and unimaginative) and then testing students relentlessly to one of student centered, engaging, imaginative real world ways of problem solving and information gathering while using Web 2.0 tools for teamwork, cooperation, exploration, data collection and analysis and genuine learning that students retain and value with the instructor serving as a guide, mentor and learning presence.
I had added the course links for this week to have them easily accessible in one place and to be able use them as a resource to share in the future:
Edutopia: Playing It Too Safe Online Will Make You Sorry
Edutopia: Confronting Concerns About Project Learning
eSchool News: Project-based Learning Engages Students, Garners Results
Howard Gardner: Multiple Intelligences and New Forms of Assessment
Diigo: Project Learning
PBL: Buck Institute
Reinventing PBL blog
PBL: Using Multiple Intelligences
Bill Strickland Video
An Introduction to Project Based Learning provided by the Buck Institute is a good summary of PBL.
Why Teach with Project Based Learning?
Project Based Learning Professional Development Courseware (free)
Project Based Learning/Project Foundry Software
Project Based Learning Changes the Learning Culture
Assessment of PBL:
Some teachers who are considering PBL are concerned about students performing as well on standardized tests.
The Buck Institute (BIE) has addressed standards-based concerns with the PBL Co-Laboratory, a free online library of project-learning project plans that conform to national standards and other online resources to support standards based PBL
A PBL Handbook describes the process and projects that demonstrate inclusion of standards into project based learning.
The Buck Institute also provides extensive Web Resources for Faculty Development and for PBL and School Reform.
PBL does involve more time and planning. One solution is growing number of online project libraries as well as software such as Project Foundry that can facilitate the process of creating and teaching within a project based learning. See the video above for a demonstration of how Project Foundry works.
West Virginia is attempting to implement project learning in every classroom. Carla Williamson, executive director for the state's Office of Instruction, says "Project learning can require more time, but it's time well spent, because the students are really taking ownership of their learning, and the end result is that their learning is so much deeper," she explains. "That's something they carry with them for the rest of their life."
I believe PBL can help change the entrenched culture of schools from one based on the Instructor providing content in lecture mode (which often is dull and unimaginative) and then testing students relentlessly to one of student centered, engaging, imaginative real world ways of problem solving and information gathering while using Web 2.0 tools for teamwork, cooperation, exploration, data collection and analysis and genuine learning that students retain and value with the instructor serving as a guide, mentor and learning presence.
I had added the course links for this week to have them easily accessible in one place and to be able use them as a resource to share in the future:
Edutopia: Playing It Too Safe Online Will Make You Sorry
Edutopia: Confronting Concerns About Project Learning
eSchool News: Project-based Learning Engages Students, Garners Results
Howard Gardner: Multiple Intelligences and New Forms of Assessment
Diigo: Project Learning
PBL: Buck Institute
Reinventing PBL blog
PBL: Using Multiple Intelligences
Bill Strickland Video
13 Web 2.0 (Feb 2 - 8)
What does Web 2.0 mean? (At first, I did not notice the author of this video)
The Machine is (Us)ing Us (More compelling Web 2.0 concepts)
After watching the videos above I think CCSNH needs to catch up with Web 2.0.
Students who graduate need to be fully conversant with social/professional networking and collaboration, team building, using the Web to compete, collaborate, cooperate and stay ahead of your competitors. All of these are skills fostered by project based learning using Web 2.0 tools.
My son (a graduate of Middlebury in film and computer scienece) is a Web developer for Marsteller in NYC. He gave me a book for Christmas called "Getting Real - The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application" by 37signals, a web application company.
The book is available for purchase in paperback or .pdf download or on the Web for free - a Web 2.0 phenomenon that enables content to be constanly updated easily and also describes the business model, values and strategy of the 37signals company. It's good marketing for 37signals and a model for using Web 2.0 tools to collaborate, innovate, make mistakes and adapt quickly to be leaner, faster and more responsive than your competitors.
The Less Mass pages of "Getting Real" describe Web 2.o concepts in the work world and are a good example of why students need to learn Web 2.0 skills to prepare for the work world as it is today, not a work world that no longer exists.
About 37signals
The Machine is (Us)ing Us (More compelling Web 2.0 concepts)
After watching the videos above I think CCSNH needs to catch up with Web 2.0.
Students who graduate need to be fully conversant with social/professional networking and collaboration, team building, using the Web to compete, collaborate, cooperate and stay ahead of your competitors. All of these are skills fostered by project based learning using Web 2.0 tools.
My son (a graduate of Middlebury in film and computer scienece) is a Web developer for Marsteller in NYC. He gave me a book for Christmas called "Getting Real - The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application" by 37signals, a web application company.
The book is available for purchase in paperback or .pdf download or on the Web for free - a Web 2.0 phenomenon that enables content to be constanly updated easily and also describes the business model, values and strategy of the 37signals company. It's good marketing for 37signals and a model for using Web 2.0 tools to collaborate, innovate, make mistakes and adapt quickly to be leaner, faster and more responsive than your competitors.
The Less Mass pages of "Getting Real" describe Web 2.o concepts in the work world and are a good example of why students need to learn Web 2.0 skills to prepare for the work world as it is today, not a work world that no longer exists.
About 37signals
Sunday, February 15, 2009
14 Why Facebook is Important (Feb. 9 - 15)
What is Social Networking?
Facebook is a free social networking site that is used pervasively by students. Many faculty at CCSNH do not fully understand how Facebook works or why they should have a Facebook account. Some have never heard of it!!!
Students are using Facebook constantly to communicate, to share information, photos, contact information, other applications within Facebook and to instant message each other and to post public or private messages. It is a Web 2.0 application that students are already using all the time. If your teaching does not involve use of Web 2.0 tools for collaboration, communication, research and project based learning you are not understanding the richness of your student's personal lives already. If your teaching involves lectures, text based content, individual projects, little opportunity for student interaction and a lack of visual, auditory and Web content, your students will be unengaged and probably uninterested and struggling or dropping your course. I would too.
In the college environment, the computers on campus are fully enabled to use social networking sites, blogs, wikis and streaming audio and video. The problem for us is not with blocking the technology. It is about a large number of faculty who are not yet aware of the seismic shift that is happening in education and how students are already using Web 2.0 technology. Students have a richness in their personal life that is often lacking in their academic life.
In addition to engaging students more fully and enabling them to learn and retain what they learn more effectively, we need to prepare students to work in a networked world where Web 2.0 tools are routinely used for collaboration, communication and working together on projects with people who may not be located in your state or country. I worked for a Danish company. When the Danes in Copenhagen were sleeping we in the United States were in the midst of our work day. We used Blackboard discussion board as a tool for communicating about 9 years ago. That is a long time ago compared to freely available technology tools now.
What Can You Do with Facebook?
At CCSNH, I attended a presentation by a police officer concerning the dangers of Facebook. I agree that students need to be aware of the need to protect their privacy and safety. However, to focus only on risk and abuses, and not mention the importance of using this pervasive Web 2.0 tool was so one sided and discouraging. Students need to be fully informed and aware of the need to protect their privacy and to be careful what they are posting for their friends or networks online.
There are sites readily available to help faculty inform students such as:
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
The Unofficial Facebook Resource
As students move through CCSNH, they all need to learn the importance of professional networking online. It is the way that many people get hired into good jobs that are never advertised anywhere except through online networking sites like LinkedIn. Professional online networking sites are not only powerful tools for connecting to other people, but are also a way of screening out people who do not have Web 2.0 skills that are increasing essential in the 21st century work environment.
Guy Kawasaki's 10 Ways to Use LinkedIn (Jan. 2007) is a good summary of why students and you need to learn to use Web 2.0 tools to network personally and professionally. Many of those who do not will be left behind and not aware of the seismic shift in the education and work worlds.
Creating a Professional Presence Online is a more comprehensive way to make professional connections and to demonstrate your credibility, experience and knowledge to a wide audience of prospective clients, customers or employers.
The world of work is changing so fast now that all of us need to stay connected with the tools of technology and how to use them effectively.
Facebook is a free social networking site that is used pervasively by students. Many faculty at CCSNH do not fully understand how Facebook works or why they should have a Facebook account. Some have never heard of it!!!
Students are using Facebook constantly to communicate, to share information, photos, contact information, other applications within Facebook and to instant message each other and to post public or private messages. It is a Web 2.0 application that students are already using all the time. If your teaching does not involve use of Web 2.0 tools for collaboration, communication, research and project based learning you are not understanding the richness of your student's personal lives already. If your teaching involves lectures, text based content, individual projects, little opportunity for student interaction and a lack of visual, auditory and Web content, your students will be unengaged and probably uninterested and struggling or dropping your course. I would too.
In the college environment, the computers on campus are fully enabled to use social networking sites, blogs, wikis and streaming audio and video. The problem for us is not with blocking the technology. It is about a large number of faculty who are not yet aware of the seismic shift that is happening in education and how students are already using Web 2.0 technology. Students have a richness in their personal life that is often lacking in their academic life.
In addition to engaging students more fully and enabling them to learn and retain what they learn more effectively, we need to prepare students to work in a networked world where Web 2.0 tools are routinely used for collaboration, communication and working together on projects with people who may not be located in your state or country. I worked for a Danish company. When the Danes in Copenhagen were sleeping we in the United States were in the midst of our work day. We used Blackboard discussion board as a tool for communicating about 9 years ago. That is a long time ago compared to freely available technology tools now.
What Can You Do with Facebook?
At CCSNH, I attended a presentation by a police officer concerning the dangers of Facebook. I agree that students need to be aware of the need to protect their privacy and safety. However, to focus only on risk and abuses, and not mention the importance of using this pervasive Web 2.0 tool was so one sided and discouraging. Students need to be fully informed and aware of the need to protect their privacy and to be careful what they are posting for their friends or networks online.
There are sites readily available to help faculty inform students such as:
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
The Unofficial Facebook Resource
As students move through CCSNH, they all need to learn the importance of professional networking online. It is the way that many people get hired into good jobs that are never advertised anywhere except through online networking sites like LinkedIn. Professional online networking sites are not only powerful tools for connecting to other people, but are also a way of screening out people who do not have Web 2.0 skills that are increasing essential in the 21st century work environment.
Guy Kawasaki's 10 Ways to Use LinkedIn (Jan. 2007) is a good summary of why students and you need to learn to use Web 2.0 tools to network personally and professionally. Many of those who do not will be left behind and not aware of the seismic shift in the education and work worlds.
Creating a Professional Presence Online is a more comprehensive way to make professional connections and to demonstrate your credibility, experience and knowledge to a wide audience of prospective clients, customers or employers.
The world of work is changing so fast now that all of us need to stay connected with the tools of technology and how to use them effectively.
15 Teaching in a Networked World (Feb. 9 - 15)
Are You Paying Attention?
A View of Students in the Networked World
The old chalk and talk method of teaching isn't cutting it anymore. However, dinosaurs are the last to know of their imminent extinction.
The lecture method was developed in the Middle Ages when only the college could afford the hand written book. Thus, the professor lectured the content to the students.
The lecture method:
"Today I am going to lecture (blather on) you on Dallas, Texas and give you a quiz on what I say next time. No questions please - I only have three hours...."
"Now first, as all of you know Dallas is the city where JFK was assassinated....."
The Web 2.0 networked world method:
The students explore Dallas on the Web and follow their interests. Each student enters an area of interest into a wiki created to collaborate on Dallas.
Each group of 3 students creates a blog about something unusual, unique and interesting about Dallas and does a 10 minute presentation using pictures, weblinks, video or any other engaging content.
For example, as a starting point - search Wikipedia for Dallas
Within the description of Dallas, I have discovered that Dallas is a center for the Arts. Who knew? I was surprised. Next, I find a specific museum that I am interested in knowing more about and post the website of the Nasher collection. I am interested in presenting this to the class and enter Nasher sculpture garden into the class Dallas wiki.
I ask my friends on Facebook if anyone has visited art museums in Dallas. A friend responds and has pictures he took from a recent visit! I share them in my blog and during my group presentation to the class.
Which is more engaging - a three hour lecture or a Web 2.0 tools exploration by all students who share their results in engaging visual ways?
A View of Students in the Networked World
The old chalk and talk method of teaching isn't cutting it anymore. However, dinosaurs are the last to know of their imminent extinction.
The lecture method was developed in the Middle Ages when only the college could afford the hand written book. Thus, the professor lectured the content to the students.
The lecture method:
"Today I am going to lecture (blather on) you on Dallas, Texas and give you a quiz on what I say next time. No questions please - I only have three hours...."
"Now first, as all of you know Dallas is the city where JFK was assassinated....."
The Web 2.0 networked world method:
The students explore Dallas on the Web and follow their interests. Each student enters an area of interest into a wiki created to collaborate on Dallas.
Each group of 3 students creates a blog about something unusual, unique and interesting about Dallas and does a 10 minute presentation using pictures, weblinks, video or any other engaging content.
For example, as a starting point - search Wikipedia for Dallas
Within the description of Dallas, I have discovered that Dallas is a center for the Arts. Who knew? I was surprised. Next, I find a specific museum that I am interested in knowing more about and post the website of the Nasher collection. I am interested in presenting this to the class and enter Nasher sculpture garden into the class Dallas wiki.
I ask my friends on Facebook if anyone has visited art museums in Dallas. A friend responds and has pictures he took from a recent visit! I share them in my blog and during my group presentation to the class.
Which is more engaging - a three hour lecture or a Web 2.0 tools exploration by all students who share their results in engaging visual ways?
16 Thoughts on Bill Strickland Video (Feb. 16-22)
Bill Strickland video
I listened to his presentation twice and took notes:
People remember pictures long after they forget words. (So true - most of us are visual learners. Text based learning is usually the least effective way of learning.)
As a high school kid from a tough, high crime Pittsburgh neighborhood, Bill was a lost, alienated student until he met an artist teacher, Mr. Ross who had made a ceramic vessel one day. Bill asked "What is that?" "Ceramics" "I want you to teach me that."
In his final two years, Bill cut all his academic classes, but gave his teachers pottery he made and they gave him passing grades to graduate. The pottery wheel had saved him from dropping out.
Mr. Ross: "You're too smart to die." and helped Bill get into the University of Pittsburg on probation.
Bill had a vision of creating a training center for ex-steel workers, single parents and welfare mothers.
He was adopted by Episcopal bishop and learned that some Episcopalians would give money to support his vision.
He hired a student of Frank Lloyd Wright to design world class training center
Bill's design vision - a school should look like the solution not the problem
Ex-steel workers, single parents, at risk kids and welfare mothers deserve a fountain in the courtyard - water represents life and human possibility and sets an attitude and expectation regarding how you feel about people before you ever say anything.
The building decor is special - everywhere you look there is something beautiful. It is this kind of atmosphere that can redeem the souls of poor people. The deserve hand crafted furniture and beautiful decor - it sets a tone and attitude about how you feel about people. Flowers are everywhere. The cost is small, the gesture is huge. Sunlight and flowers help people believe in hope and possibility.
Heinz company = $1M gift to add a culinary service program
Good food not for rich people, it is for everyone. The training center subsidizes a gourmet lunch for students. What is good for their stomachs is also good for their spirits. It conveys a message - they have value. You can solve the race problem - if you create a world class environment (for example, an elegant dining room) you will see world class behavior
Only thing wrong with poor people is a lack of money, a curable condition.
Training programs include: travel agent, med techs, chem. techs, arts program, photography, ceramics and digital imaging.
How can kids graduate who cannot read their diploma? The system pays for kids who graduate not kids who read.
With flowers, sunshine, good food, affection, good music (Herbie Hancock) and enthusiasm you can bring kids back to life.
Treat children like human beings and they will behave that way. Children will become like the people who teach them. Experts create experts.
Poor kids need a world class gallery to display their art. Parents will always go to where children are being celebrated.
You have to change the way people see themselves before you can change their behavior.
After a Silicon valley presentation - HP and Steelcase donated a demonstration digital imaging center.
Bill built music hall at training center- Dizzy Gillespie played there and donated all the profits from the concert CD with money to support the school. Other artists who performed there include Winton Marselis, Ray Brown, Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente, Jim Hall, Shirley Horn, Nancy Wilson, Count Basie Orchestra, Betty Carter, UN Jazz Orchestra and Joe Williams ("God picked you to do this work, I want you to have my music"). All have performed to sold out audiences - 600 recordings with profits to school. Bill built new video technology recording studio for Nancy Wilson's Christmas album, the rights to which donated to school. An Oprah Winfrey appearance resulted in 10,000 CDs sold.
Built new larger training center with commercial anchor tenants like Mellon Bank, Medical Center, etc. at $20/sq. ft. in the inner city.
New project: building a greenhouse in the center city to train kids to grow flowers for sale to markets. They will include high technology orchids.
Bill: "Be prepared to act on your dreams in case they come true".
Now building world class training center in San Francisco with Willie Brown, mayor of SF and Herbie Hancock as partners. It is located on five acres on the bay and is being supported many donors. One short guy from Silicon Valley - founder or eBay saw Bill's presentation and became involved with a team of people to plan the building.
Bill met with and asked neighbors for their permission to build center - 200 angry disappointed people attended. After 10 pictures they settled down. A woman stood up and said "In 35 years in this God forsaken place you are the only person who has treated us with dignity". They soon supported his vision.
Qunicy Jones wants to help build a center in Los Angeles. Quincy asked: "Where did the idea to build these centers come from?" Bill: "It came from your music when I was 16, Mr. Ross bought in your albums while I was doing pottery."
Bill: I believe in you, your hopes and dreams, your intelligence and your enthusiasm. I am tired of living like this, seeing town after town with people standing around corners with their spirits broken.
$60,000 for a year in jail, $40,000 to go to U/Pitt. medical school. We have to change. I want to build a center in every city in the country in my lifetime. I make a friend in every town and am never lonely.
An atmosphere of high culture and respect will energize even the most troubled students.
My thoughts on Bill:
1) He is an inspiring person who, as an alienated and lost high school kid, had the good fortune to find something that engages him (making ceramics) and a good teacher who became his mentor and friend. Someone believed in him and treated him with respect, dignity and kindness. Also, the availability of a ceramics programs saved him. It is troubling to see arts programs being eliminated as frills so that more focus can be on standardized, no child left behind testing. Ironically, elimination of arts and music probably results in many kids being left behind.
2) Bill's vision that poor people in the inner city are able to rise above their circumstances if they are treated with dignity, kindness, enthusiasm and hope for the future works. His training centers are filled with flowers, sunlight, beautiful music and an elegant nurturing decor (world class environment = world class behavior). The fountain in the courtyard communicates life, hope, respect for people and an appreciation for the fact that all humans need to have someone care about them and have an environment that lifts their spirit and enables them to have hope for a better life.
3) Bill is a great communicator and so good at persuasive networking. He is also not afraid to ask for what he needs to accomplish his vision of humanistic, nurturing training centers in every city. Think of how many he could reach by using technology enabled social and professional networking. He has accomplished so much already and his presentation is very compelling and persuasive.
4) Bill's vision is about lifting peoples' spirits and building their self confidence to enable them to succeed in training and education. Our public schools often seem to do the opposite - the obsession with testing, grades, curriculum and the lack of a nurturing environment that lifts spirits and build self confidence. No wonder so many students are unengaged, failing, dropping out or graduating "without being able to read the words on their diploma."
5) Bill is a role model for effective leadership. He has accomplished so much despite the odds and has created a model for inner city training centers that works. Our public schools should embrace Bill's vision of how to rescue people from poverty and despair. How do we get large entrenched bureaucratic schools to change in ways that enable success? I think we need to encourage innovative charter schools to break the ineffective, bureaucratic, enormously expensive stranglehold on education in big cites by encouraging and funding alternative schools and training centers.
Finally, lifting peoples' spirits and building self confidence is critically important. It is more important than anything else we do. If someone is unengaged, lacking in confidence and feels a lack of respect or support, success in educational programs is unlikely. Also, the importance of art, flowers, beauty, uplifting music, good healthy food, nurturing environments is evident in the success of students in Bill's training centers. It is shortsighted, counterproductive and troubling to see so many programs in art and music being eliminated as "frills" so there can be more focus on No Child Left Behind testing.
Don't be afraid to live your vision and to ask people to help you. Network with people constantly, use technology to effectively communicate and involve other people in your vision of how to make things better. Don't be afraid to ask people to help you with time, money, expertise or anything else they can offer to support your goals for positive change. We are all in this world together and we need to take care of each other. It sounds cliche, but on a deep level it is true.
From Gretchen's post: Making the Impossible Possible
I listened to his presentation twice and took notes:
People remember pictures long after they forget words. (So true - most of us are visual learners. Text based learning is usually the least effective way of learning.)
As a high school kid from a tough, high crime Pittsburgh neighborhood, Bill was a lost, alienated student until he met an artist teacher, Mr. Ross who had made a ceramic vessel one day. Bill asked "What is that?" "Ceramics" "I want you to teach me that."
In his final two years, Bill cut all his academic classes, but gave his teachers pottery he made and they gave him passing grades to graduate. The pottery wheel had saved him from dropping out.
Mr. Ross: "You're too smart to die." and helped Bill get into the University of Pittsburg on probation.
Bill had a vision of creating a training center for ex-steel workers, single parents and welfare mothers.
He was adopted by Episcopal bishop and learned that some Episcopalians would give money to support his vision.
He hired a student of Frank Lloyd Wright to design world class training center
Bill's design vision - a school should look like the solution not the problem
Ex-steel workers, single parents, at risk kids and welfare mothers deserve a fountain in the courtyard - water represents life and human possibility and sets an attitude and expectation regarding how you feel about people before you ever say anything.
The building decor is special - everywhere you look there is something beautiful. It is this kind of atmosphere that can redeem the souls of poor people. The deserve hand crafted furniture and beautiful decor - it sets a tone and attitude about how you feel about people. Flowers are everywhere. The cost is small, the gesture is huge. Sunlight and flowers help people believe in hope and possibility.
Heinz company = $1M gift to add a culinary service program
Good food not for rich people, it is for everyone. The training center subsidizes a gourmet lunch for students. What is good for their stomachs is also good for their spirits. It conveys a message - they have value. You can solve the race problem - if you create a world class environment (for example, an elegant dining room) you will see world class behavior
Only thing wrong with poor people is a lack of money, a curable condition.
Training programs include: travel agent, med techs, chem. techs, arts program, photography, ceramics and digital imaging.
How can kids graduate who cannot read their diploma? The system pays for kids who graduate not kids who read.
With flowers, sunshine, good food, affection, good music (Herbie Hancock) and enthusiasm you can bring kids back to life.
Treat children like human beings and they will behave that way. Children will become like the people who teach them. Experts create experts.
Poor kids need a world class gallery to display their art. Parents will always go to where children are being celebrated.
You have to change the way people see themselves before you can change their behavior.
After a Silicon valley presentation - HP and Steelcase donated a demonstration digital imaging center.
Bill built music hall at training center- Dizzy Gillespie played there and donated all the profits from the concert CD with money to support the school. Other artists who performed there include Winton Marselis, Ray Brown, Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente, Jim Hall, Shirley Horn, Nancy Wilson, Count Basie Orchestra, Betty Carter, UN Jazz Orchestra and Joe Williams ("God picked you to do this work, I want you to have my music"). All have performed to sold out audiences - 600 recordings with profits to school. Bill built new video technology recording studio for Nancy Wilson's Christmas album, the rights to which donated to school. An Oprah Winfrey appearance resulted in 10,000 CDs sold.
Built new larger training center with commercial anchor tenants like Mellon Bank, Medical Center, etc. at $20/sq. ft. in the inner city.
New project: building a greenhouse in the center city to train kids to grow flowers for sale to markets. They will include high technology orchids.
Bill: "Be prepared to act on your dreams in case they come true".
Now building world class training center in San Francisco with Willie Brown, mayor of SF and Herbie Hancock as partners. It is located on five acres on the bay and is being supported many donors. One short guy from Silicon Valley - founder or eBay saw Bill's presentation and became involved with a team of people to plan the building.
Bill met with and asked neighbors for their permission to build center - 200 angry disappointed people attended. After 10 pictures they settled down. A woman stood up and said "In 35 years in this God forsaken place you are the only person who has treated us with dignity". They soon supported his vision.
Qunicy Jones wants to help build a center in Los Angeles. Quincy asked: "Where did the idea to build these centers come from?" Bill: "It came from your music when I was 16, Mr. Ross bought in your albums while I was doing pottery."
Bill: I believe in you, your hopes and dreams, your intelligence and your enthusiasm. I am tired of living like this, seeing town after town with people standing around corners with their spirits broken.
$60,000 for a year in jail, $40,000 to go to U/Pitt. medical school. We have to change. I want to build a center in every city in the country in my lifetime. I make a friend in every town and am never lonely.
An atmosphere of high culture and respect will energize even the most troubled students.
My thoughts on Bill:
1) He is an inspiring person who, as an alienated and lost high school kid, had the good fortune to find something that engages him (making ceramics) and a good teacher who became his mentor and friend. Someone believed in him and treated him with respect, dignity and kindness. Also, the availability of a ceramics programs saved him. It is troubling to see arts programs being eliminated as frills so that more focus can be on standardized, no child left behind testing. Ironically, elimination of arts and music probably results in many kids being left behind.
2) Bill's vision that poor people in the inner city are able to rise above their circumstances if they are treated with dignity, kindness, enthusiasm and hope for the future works. His training centers are filled with flowers, sunlight, beautiful music and an elegant nurturing decor (world class environment = world class behavior). The fountain in the courtyard communicates life, hope, respect for people and an appreciation for the fact that all humans need to have someone care about them and have an environment that lifts their spirit and enables them to have hope for a better life.
3) Bill is a great communicator and so good at persuasive networking. He is also not afraid to ask for what he needs to accomplish his vision of humanistic, nurturing training centers in every city. Think of how many he could reach by using technology enabled social and professional networking. He has accomplished so much already and his presentation is very compelling and persuasive.
4) Bill's vision is about lifting peoples' spirits and building their self confidence to enable them to succeed in training and education. Our public schools often seem to do the opposite - the obsession with testing, grades, curriculum and the lack of a nurturing environment that lifts spirits and build self confidence. No wonder so many students are unengaged, failing, dropping out or graduating "without being able to read the words on their diploma."
5) Bill is a role model for effective leadership. He has accomplished so much despite the odds and has created a model for inner city training centers that works. Our public schools should embrace Bill's vision of how to rescue people from poverty and despair. How do we get large entrenched bureaucratic schools to change in ways that enable success? I think we need to encourage innovative charter schools to break the ineffective, bureaucratic, enormously expensive stranglehold on education in big cites by encouraging and funding alternative schools and training centers.
Finally, lifting peoples' spirits and building self confidence is critically important. It is more important than anything else we do. If someone is unengaged, lacking in confidence and feels a lack of respect or support, success in educational programs is unlikely. Also, the importance of art, flowers, beauty, uplifting music, good healthy food, nurturing environments is evident in the success of students in Bill's training centers. It is shortsighted, counterproductive and troubling to see so many programs in art and music being eliminated as "frills" so there can be more focus on No Child Left Behind testing.
Don't be afraid to live your vision and to ask people to help you. Network with people constantly, use technology to effectively communicate and involve other people in your vision of how to make things better. Don't be afraid to ask people to help you with time, money, expertise or anything else they can offer to support your goals for positive change. We are all in this world together and we need to take care of each other. It sounds cliche, but on a deep level it is true.
From Gretchen's post: Making the Impossible Possible
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
12 Personal Learning Networks (Feb. 2 - 8)
Personal Learning Networks from the Fischbowl.
I loved this TeacherTube video from Gretchen's post and included here to save for future sharing. It's a great example of how students can use open source technology to develop their own personal learning networks to collaborate, cooperate and compete - good skills for the 21st century workplace:
Singularity University - a high level global personal learning network of interdisciplinary high level problem solvers
Ray Kurzweil - How technology's accelerating power will transform us
On a personal level, I am developing a professional and personal learning network on LinkedIn. I am connecting with friends, work associates, family, and experts in online learning through the network building technology and the ability to join or create groups for the purpose of building a personal learning network in areas of career interest. In the eLearning Guild, we are sharing insight, resources, best practices, jobs, conferences, connections to expert etc. in the area of online learning.
I loved this TeacherTube video from Gretchen's post and included here to save for future sharing. It's a great example of how students can use open source technology to develop their own personal learning networks to collaborate, cooperate and compete - good skills for the 21st century workplace:
Singularity University - a high level global personal learning network of interdisciplinary high level problem solvers
Ray Kurzweil - How technology's accelerating power will transform us
On a personal level, I am developing a professional and personal learning network on LinkedIn. I am connecting with friends, work associates, family, and experts in online learning through the network building technology and the ability to join or create groups for the purpose of building a personal learning network in areas of career interest. In the eLearning Guild, we are sharing insight, resources, best practices, jobs, conferences, connections to expert etc. in the area of online learning.
11 Connectedness and Family (Jan. 26 - Feb. 1)
I grew up in Winchester, Mass. My parents were born there and lived there for 65 years before moving to Delray Beach, Florida. My father worked his whole career within walking distance of our houses there.
When growing up, many of my relatives lived in Winchester too. We had a very close family life. Aunts, uncles and cousins were part of our daily life. My father worked as a banker in Winchester. I rode my bike home every school day to eat lunch with my parents when I was in elementary school.
However, when the children of my parents' generation went off to college, our Winchester relatives started to move all over the country for schools and jobs.
I also moved away from Winchester and gradually began to lose frequent contact with my relatives. I would see some of them at weddings and more frequently at funerals. But we lost our ability to be easily in touch. It was hard to keep up with their changing phone numbers and addresses.
However, I started using the social networking site, Facebook, last year and am reconnecting with my relatives. For example, Mike Ambrose, my brother's son, now lives in Palm Springs, CA. I had not seen him in many years. Now, I interact frequently with him on Facebook.
My sister's son, Mark, is married and living with his wife and two young daughters in Miami. Tragically, his three year old autistic son drowned in a canal near their home last summer. I was able to be present at the heart breaking service for him held at a church in Kendall, Florida. It was video streamed over the Internet. I was glad to have been able to attend in that way. It felt very much as though I was there in person.
Facebook also now has a family application with which you can add relatives and define their relationship to you so family members can see how they are related and can easily contact each other.
My sister Carole has a daughter, Cindy. One of Cindy's daughters, Maria, graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in Marine Biology a few years ago. I saw her at a family reunion a couple of years ago, but have been out of touch with her for years. She told me during her undergrad years at U. Miami, on most Thursday nights she was at South Beach.
However, with Facebook I now am connected to her again. I see current pictures of her and now know she is getting a masters degree at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton in Biology and is living close to where my parents used to live. After graduation from U. Miami, she did research on declining rodents native to the Florida Keys and now is doing research on sea turtles
Maria shot a video of sea turtles hatching and posted it on her her Facebook account. It is password protected so I cannot share it here.
I also now know she is going to Australia to a Sea Turtle conference to present results of her research and she will be scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef.
She is also learning Salsa:
The technology of Facebook now enables us to easily be connected to friends and family who are dispersed across the world.
When growing up, many of my relatives lived in Winchester too. We had a very close family life. Aunts, uncles and cousins were part of our daily life. My father worked as a banker in Winchester. I rode my bike home every school day to eat lunch with my parents when I was in elementary school.
However, when the children of my parents' generation went off to college, our Winchester relatives started to move all over the country for schools and jobs.
I also moved away from Winchester and gradually began to lose frequent contact with my relatives. I would see some of them at weddings and more frequently at funerals. But we lost our ability to be easily in touch. It was hard to keep up with their changing phone numbers and addresses.
However, I started using the social networking site, Facebook, last year and am reconnecting with my relatives. For example, Mike Ambrose, my brother's son, now lives in Palm Springs, CA. I had not seen him in many years. Now, I interact frequently with him on Facebook.
My sister's son, Mark, is married and living with his wife and two young daughters in Miami. Tragically, his three year old autistic son drowned in a canal near their home last summer. I was able to be present at the heart breaking service for him held at a church in Kendall, Florida. It was video streamed over the Internet. I was glad to have been able to attend in that way. It felt very much as though I was there in person.
Facebook also now has a family application with which you can add relatives and define their relationship to you so family members can see how they are related and can easily contact each other.
My sister Carole has a daughter, Cindy. One of Cindy's daughters, Maria, graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in Marine Biology a few years ago. I saw her at a family reunion a couple of years ago, but have been out of touch with her for years. She told me during her undergrad years at U. Miami, on most Thursday nights she was at South Beach.
However, with Facebook I now am connected to her again. I see current pictures of her and now know she is getting a masters degree at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton in Biology and is living close to where my parents used to live. After graduation from U. Miami, she did research on declining rodents native to the Florida Keys and now is doing research on sea turtles
Maria shot a video of sea turtles hatching and posted it on her her Facebook account. It is password protected so I cannot share it here.
I also now know she is going to Australia to a Sea Turtle conference to present results of her research and she will be scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef.
She is also learning Salsa:
The technology of Facebook now enables us to easily be connected to friends and family who are dispersed across the world.
Monday, February 9, 2009
10 Mastering technology and information overload (Jan. 19 - 25)
As I go through this course, there are many weblinks, videos, websites, articles, books and technology techniques that I want to remember or share in the future. Consequently, I am trying to create blogs that are not only reflections but helpful sources of information for other students and me now, but also are blogs that I can refer to in the future and share with others here at work. They are also good reminders when I am feeling information overload.
The first video below is one that Jeff referred me to early in the course. I had never seen http://edublogs.tv before and the video below on searching Google more effectively was helpful too!
Google Search Tips
Carl posted a comment on one of my earlier blogs asking how to embed video in blogger. I was going to recreate the steps for doing it and then - light dawns on Marblehead - I looked on Youtube. Here is a good explanation, Carl with an interesting accent too!
Embedding a Youtube Video into Blogger
Finally, I have really appreciated learning about the very clear and well done Commoncraft videos.
The first video below is one that Jeff referred me to early in the course. I had never seen http://edublogs.tv before and the video below on searching Google more effectively was helpful too!
Google Search Tips
Carl posted a comment on one of my earlier blogs asking how to embed video in blogger. I was going to recreate the steps for doing it and then - light dawns on Marblehead - I looked on Youtube. Here is a good explanation, Carl with an interesting accent too!
Embedding a Youtube Video into Blogger
Finally, I have really appreciated learning about the very clear and well done Commoncraft videos.
Monday, February 2, 2009
9 Podcasts (January 26 - Feb 1)
What is a podcast?
How Create a Podcast?
Download Audacity ,"free, open source software for recording and editing sounds."
Also, download the MP3 encoder from the Audacity site.
To upload your podcast to the Internet, a good site is http://www.podcast.com.
Finally, submit your podcast to a search engine at http://www.podcast411.com
At CCSNH, we are about to do a pilot of Wimba Classroom in about 15 courses. That software automates the process of podcasting so it is very easy to do. It eliminates all the steps above, but Wimba is not free software.
How Create a Podcast?
Download Audacity ,"free, open source software for recording and editing sounds."
Also, download the MP3 encoder from the Audacity site.
To upload your podcast to the Internet, a good site is http://www.podcast.com.
Finally, submit your podcast to a search engine at http://www.podcast411.com
At CCSNH, we are about to do a pilot of Wimba Classroom in about 15 courses. That software automates the process of podcasting so it is very easy to do. It eliminates all the steps above, but Wimba is not free software.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
8 Wikis in Education (Jan. 19-25)
I am posting some of Jeff's content from the course to my own blog to be able to access and share in the future after the course is over.
What is a Wiki?
The Flat Classroom Project
Horizon Project
Wikis in Education
Now that I know how wikis, blogs and RSS work, and fully understand the meaning of connectivism, I am quite discouraged by where we are at work. We have 2600 courses on Blackboard this term and offer 400+ full online courses per year. The quality of those courses varies greatly. Some are excellent and innovative, some are dull, unengaging and mirror the punishing nature of chalk and talk teaching. However, very few faculty know how to use wikis (or what they are even), blogs, podcasts or RSS. The whole concept of connectivism in learning is not even on the radar of most faculty.
Recently, one of the CCSNH colleges decided that all faculty must post their syllabus and contact information on Blackboard, the online teaching software used at CCSNH. It seemed to me to be a small step in the right direction. In the face of faculty resistance, the decision to have all faculty post a syllabus and their contact information on Blackboard was abandoned. I am appalled at the faculty who resist and at his lack of leadership.
The college is struggling for enrollments (no surprise there!) and yet the entrenched faculty resist change. They prefer small classes in the chalk and talk mode of not engaging students and teaching so ineffectively. To me, it's more about what the teacher prefers than what the students need.
Oh yes, the union part of the problem. Unions are not known for progressive and forward thinking ideas. Plus technology makes top down control very difficult for a union.
Entrenched faculty who resist change and think technology is a fad and not essential workplace, problem solving and career building skills for students are a reality for us. Dinosaurs who do not see their oncoming extinction are such obstacles to change for us.
We have made a lot of progress in the past few years, but have a long way to go to catch up to the most effective technology enabled ways of engaging students and being a mentor, guide, information architect for them rather than a boring lecturer.Jeff''s video as an active link - How will CCSNH compete with this?
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